Word: styling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter was written, of course, by Franklin Roosevelt's son-in-law, John Boettiger, publisher of Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It got under Elliott's hide. From Pinehurst, N. C. he retorted to Brother-in-law Boettiger in his best literary style...
Soon Hines became known as a big spender, a heavy bettor at racetracks. His family lived in style. Yet his reported income was modest, its sources vague. He filed no tax returns for the period 1929-35 until the Government cracked down. Then the following items were revealed: $3,300 a year for "services" to the Sun & Surf Club at Atlantic Beach, L. I.; $2,400 to $6,550 a year for "services" to the New Hampshire Breeders (Rockingham Park racetrack company); $4,000 to $5,000 a year from Kenway Construction Co. for "services...
...tips...Catch the Duke's recording of "Aint The Gravy Fine" (Vocalion) if you want nice bounce rhythm and a salacious vocal ... After a little checking of master plate numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded about a year age. Good dise, but the style isn't as good as the one the band now uses.... Listen to Johnny Kirby's record of "Pastel Blues" (Decca) and you won't go near the Art Shaw of the same
...dons of all persuasions, Monsignor Knox furnishes, between dialogues, imaginary documentation of his characters, some of it in the form of brilliant literary parodies. Best known of the authors whose style he imitates to a comma are James Boswell, Harold Nicolson...
...squeezed out there and almost everywhere else by simpler & slower squash racquets, nowadays is largely the hobby of a fairly small group of players in the Manhattan area. It is played with a green, net-covered, two-and-one-half-inch rubber ball and a ten-ounce lawn-tennis-style racquet on a 32-by-18½-ft. court. Players alternate in serving against a wall, score points only while in service...